README.md

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title: Nuremberg Trials AI
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.44.0
app_file: app.py
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license: mit

Nuremberg Trials AI

The most comprehensive AI-powered question-answering system for the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949).

Features

• RAG-powered answers: Searches through 120,000+ document chunks
• Source citations: Every answer shows the original source documents
• Complete coverage: All 13 trials (IMT + 12 NMT), judgments, charter, and biographies

Data Sources

Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project (518MB)

Complete transcripts from all 13 trials:

• Trial 1: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.)
• Trial 2: Milch Case
• Trial 3: Justice Case
• Trial 4: Hostages Case
• Trial 5: Pohl Case
• Trial 6: Einsatzgruppen Case
• Trial 7: IMT - Main Trial (Goering et al.)
• Trial 8: Flick Case
• Trial 9: IG Farben Case
• Trial 10: RuSHA Case
• Trial 11: Krupp Case
• Trial 12: Ministries Case
• Trial 13: High Command Case

Total: 153,010 pages

Yale Avalon Project (192MB)

• London Charter & IMT Constitution
• Indictments and Judgments (all defendants)
• Trial Proceedings (22 volumes)
• Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression (4 volumes)

Total: 857 documents, 11.3 million words

Wikipedia

• 24 defendant biographies
• 11 trial overview pages
• 8 key prosecutors/judges
• 6 Nazi organization pages

Total: 49 pages

Technology

• Embeddings: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (sentence-transformers)
• Vector Search: FAISS with 120,385 vectors
• LLM: Zephyr-7B (HuggingFace Inference API)
• UI: Gradio

Example Questions

• How many defendants were sentenced to death at Nuremberg?
• What were the four counts in the Nuremberg indictment?
• Who was the chief prosecutor for the United States?
• What happened to Hermann Goering?
• What were the Nazi medical experiments?
• What was the Einsatzgruppen trial about?
• Who was prosecuted in the IG Farben trial?

Related Resources

• Raw Dataset: Adherence/nuremberg-trials-complete
• RAG Dataset: Adherence/nuremberg-trials-rag